This is a body scan meditation used in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses created by Jon Kabat Zinn. Body scans give us the opportunity to come home to ourselves piece by piece. Most of us move so fast through our days that we forget we have bodies much less that we have bodies that hold valuable information & insight. Learning to come home to the body helps us anchor in the present moment by staying with feelings and sensations.

This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s mountain meditation used in his 8wk course Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

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This meditation is often used in the day retreat which is part of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) 8wk course. Engage the imagery & felt sense of being one with a basin of water. Notice how life can feel choppy and unsettled on the surface, and there is also a constant stillness beneath the surface you can anchor in as well. This meditation is calming in the moment of practice and can also can be called upon during stressful events to help anchor and ground the body and mind.